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https://www.arewestableyet.com/ https://www.arewestableyet.com/ is for internal tracking and rather hard to make sense of externally. It's cluttered with jargon
by dao- 9y ago
https://www.arewestableyet.com/ https://www.arewestableyet.com/ is for internal tracking and rather hard to make sense of externally. It's cluttered with jargon and abbreviations and raw numbers. (I can tell because I just logged in. I work for Mozilla.) For example, this is how the rows are labeled in one table: usage_khours, Main (M), M + Content (M+C), C - Content Shutdown (C-S), M + C - S, NPAPI + GMP Plugin Crashes (P), GPU.
It's easy to see how exposing this site to the world might not be a good idea, especially when it's referenced from a blog post appearing on the hacker news front page and people start drawing all kinds of uninformed conclusions.
- the8472 9y agoLocking out people because they might be confused by data seems... quite patronizing. I'm not saying I am entitled to mozilla's data, but if that were the reason behind closing data that was once open I would feel a little insulted. Lack of openness also makes participation more difficult. For example I occasionally see links by mozilla developers posted on IRC (some telemetry, google spreadsheets) that require login, which makes it more difficult to follow what's going on.
- dao- 9y agoDunno, can you make sense of the jargon I pasted? This site really isn't useful to the outside and probably shouldn't have been public in the first place. It would _never_ have been public at Apple or Microsoft or Google. But Mozilla is open by default, so people often don't think twice before making something public. Also, (unpaid) Mozilla contributors do get access to this stuff.
- the8472 9y ago> Dunno, can you make sense of the jargon I pasted? yes, the crash stats site shows similar categories
- glandium 9y agoOne could argue that if it's for internal tracking, it doesn't need its own domain name.